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To the successors of St. Peter (for whom during so many centuries there was no security or respite from imperial vengeance, even in the catacombs and sepul- chres of the dead), that stately palace which had been appropriated to t^eir own u. Se by the emperors from the attainder and execution of Plautius Lateranus, was now granted in perpetuity by Constantine, with rich demesnes in Italy and the other provinces. The power and solicitude so long exerted to deprive the martyrs even of an obscure g...rave were now busied in adorning the scenes of their sufferings, and in erectinji^ magnificent and costly mausoleums above their sepul- chres outside the city walls. From the night after the prince of the apostles had 248 THE FOURTH CENTURY. suffered martyrdom, the crypt, hard by the Circus of Nero, where the dead body of St. Peter had reposed, became a most hallowed spot, and a place of prayer and pilgrimage for the Christians. It formed one of the greatest privileges of his successors to be laid in death beside the great founder or first viceroy of Christ's kingdom.
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